
Episode 540 • • 13:16 - 19:33
540: Tools of Slaughter
Google Downtime, Internet Traffic Statistics, Antitrust Claims
A brief Google service outage led to widespread reports from tech journalists claiming that 40% of global internet traffic disappeared during the downtime. These statistics, sourced from Go Squared Engineering, are challenged as being unverified and likely only reflective of a specific subset of users rather than the entire internet. If Google truly controlled 40% of the web, it is argued that the government should initiate antitrust proceedings to break the company up.
